A History of Ireland's Deaf Community [From the archives]
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
I have come down with a cold so rather than subject you to me coughing and spluttering through a show I have selected a classic from the archives.
As I explain, I recently listened back to this episode after a chance meeting with my guest Cormac Leonard. The episode on the history of the Deaf community is the definition of forgotten history. Until recently the community was largely ignored by historians.
In this episode Cormac explains how the deaf community shaped Irish history. He also shares individual stories such as John Neville who spent most of his life in a workhouse and the IRA volunteer William Leavey.
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| 1:12.1 | Hey folks, I've come down with a cold, so I'm not good to subject you to a full episode of |
| 1:17.3 | the coffee and gasplottering, but I do have a great show for you from the archives to listen to. |
| 1:23.6 | The three and a half years ago, I interviewed Kormak Leonard about an aspect of our past, |
| 1:28.4 | completely neglected and overlooked by most historians. That's the history of the death |
| 1:33.5 | community. I was reminded of that episode recently when I ran into Kormak at the Dublin festival |
| 1:39.3 | of history. That prompted me to relisten to the show we made and it's a great conversation, |
| 1:44.8 | so whether you heard it first time or not, you'll really enjoy this. I'll catch up to you next week |
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